Egregores, Consciousness, Jung, AI & Spiritual Entities | Kenneth Michael Florence (#58)

Kenneth Michael Florence is a writer, artist, and musician. An egregore is the concept in Western esotericism of a non-physical entity or thoughtform that arises from the collective thoughts and emotions of a group of individuals. Is the concept useful for describing collective entities like economies, corporations and nations in today's world? Are collective entities reducible to the psychic, or is there more to them? In this podcast expect to learn about whether collective beings are conscious, the relationship between personhood and souls, Carl Jung's collective unconscious in relation to spiritual realities, how Rudolf Steiner's four domains of reality help us understand egregores, understanding AI in spiritual terms, and more... 00:00 Kenneth's Article on Egregores 07:13 Are Collective Entities Conscious? 12:44 Personhood and Identity 21:13 Carl Jung's Higher Self and Psychic Realities 28:25 Psyche vs. Spirit (Can Spirits Be Reduced to Psyche?) 38:54 Rudolf Steiner's Four Domains of Reality 47:35 Egregores as Headless Beings 01:00:20 Spiritual Realities Non-Reducible to the Material 01:05:18 AI as an Astral Entity Susceptible to Spirits Find Kenneth Egregores article: https://thesymbolicworld.com/content/the-symbolic-world-vs-egregores-part-1 Website: https://www.kennethmichaelflorence.com/bio Substack: https://kennethmichaelflorence.substack.com/